Writing Tips – Outline or No Outline or is There a Third Option

This is a throwback blog regarding a technique that I still use today. The book I’m currently working on is a collaboration with another author and this technique has been extremely useful for keeping us on track. Please enjoy.

This blog post focuses on the topic of whether or not it is better to outline your book or short story before you dive in and write. When I wrote my first book, it was in the days before airplanes allowed tablet devices to be used during that down time before the flight took off. I fly through Atlanta from Jacksonville, FL every week and usually the time waiting to take off exceeds the actual flight time. During those dark ages when ALL electronic devices had to be off and stowed, I wrote my first novel completely in longhand in notebooks. It was an interesting exercise that was very time consuming…